On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 11:02:26AM -0500, Joel Schneider wrote: > A story on NewsForge poses the question, "is Debian the right system for > a hacker?": > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/06/28/2219224.shtml Uh, clueless troll article. If you read some of the comments on the article (which is really on advogato) you'll see a lot of dessent. 1. Many people that use Debian run unstable which is very up to date. Sure, it takes a while for big things like X 4.2 or OpenOffice to get in, but it doesn't stop you from doing it yourself. 2. Debian is not hard to install. If you think otherwise, why do you think it is hard to install? What makes other distributions easier to install? 3. People who think running Debian is "cool" should be dopeslapped. They are likely to reinstall their system every month trying out the latest "cool" distro. I use Debian because apt makes installing software so easy and Debian makes tons of software available. Some people like the Debian social contract and how all of the software is free (as in speech). Nate